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    Airframe Family: North American T-6/AT-6/SNJ Texan / Harvard
    Latest Model:SNJ-5 Texan
    Last Military Serial:84850 USN
    Construction Number:88-16581
    Last Civil Registration:N7988C
    Compressed ID:NA SNJ-5 sn 84850 USN cn 88-16581 c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Freppon FARM Equipment Llc, Wilmington, DE

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an AT-6D-NT by North American at Dallas, Texas, USA.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-84800.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 84850 as a SNJ-5.

    To unknown owner with c/r N7988C.

    5 March 1959

    Certificate of airworthiness for N7988C (AT-6D, BU84850) issued.

    From 1963 to 1970

    To Kenneth R. Everson, Fillmore, CA keeping c/r N7988C.

    From 1976 to 1977

    To Terramar Inc, Cape Canaveral, FL keeping c/r N7988C.
    Markings added: 105 / S

    27 January 1979


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At Lakeland, Florida

    20 March 1981


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At LAL with a different paint scheme.

    From June 1983 to 2001

    To John W. Kehoe, Lakeland, FL keeping c/r N7988C.

    By March 1986


    Photographer: William B Slate

    29 November 1991


    Photographer: eLaReF
    Notes: At Kissimmee, Florida

    26 April 2002

    To Aviation Pursuits Inc, Carrollton, GA keeping c/r N7988C.

    1 January 2005

    Certificate of airworthiness for N7988C (AT-6D, BU84850) issued.

    Based at OV Gray Field/West Georgia Regional Airport, Carrollton, GA.
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    18 June 2015

    To John P. Fester, Steelville, MO keeping c/r N7988C.
    Markings added: 23

    4 January 2017

    To unknown owner with c/r N7988C.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Wilmington, DE.

    13 June 2017

    To Freppon FARM Equipment Llc, Wilmington, DE keeping c/r N7988C.
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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